[news.eclipse.technology.babel] Re: Babel PTT

["Brian Fitzpatrick" <brianf@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I too am interested in knowing how exactly to use the Babel PTT to satisfy 
the localization should-do for DTP for the Galileo simultaneous release. 
We're already good as far as getting everything into Babel (map files and so 
on), but I can't find anything on the wiki or newsgroups or doing a Google 
search to figure out what exactly is necessary to use the Babel PTT.

Any suggestions would be very helpful.

--Fitz

DTP PMC Lead/Connectivity sub-project lead/Enablement sub-project lead

"Víctor Roldán Betancort" <vroldan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> Hi everyone,
>
> as a member of the CDO component, we are trying to fulfill our 
> localization needs for the Galileo release. I'll try to expose here what 
> I've understood.
>
> (Please correct me if wrong) The steps to properly prepare our project for 
> babel are:
>
> 1. Externalize all Strings that are subject to be shown in the UI from our 
> plugins (in our case, I expect only UI and Exceptions are subject to be 
> shown). Use JDT and PDE tooling to externalize strings.
>
> 2. Create a babel map. If I understand it correctly, this is kind of a 
> file that exposes which externalized Strings can be translated by the 
> Babel community. I saw this is done through a webapp. The first thing I 
> see is our project does not appear, which I understand since we are not 
> top level project under modeling, but rather under modeling.emf. How can 
> we add our component to this list? Is there anything we should do?
>
> 4. Perform PTT to see everything is fine?
>
> How is exactly the Pseudo Translation Test performed? I believe I should 
> download the PTT plugin and then configure eclipse.ini to use it? Which is 
> the flag I should use? If I understood correctly:
>
> a. Hard-coded strings don't have prefix
> b. Externalized Strings have prefix. If the string has the prefix, what 
> does it exactly mean?
>
> Question: where is the index file that maps prefix to file containing the 
> string?
>
> Thanks in advance :D
>
> Víctor.